Life is transient

"Life is transient isn't it?" she said.

"It's just been a month and i've attended one wedding and two funerals." I couldn't agree more with her.

I was shopping with a good friend today when we started having a conversation about how terribly fragile life is.

At the same moment a baby is being born to parents with beaming faces, another person breathes his last.

Just a few hours ago i was planning to do this and that today and the next minute i find myself driving my gong gong (grandfather)to A&E at Changi General Hospital. A few hours later, i realise that the doctors suspect he may have a minor stroke and has to be warded.

The days i have left with him are numbered, simply because he's getting on with age.(he's close to 90-years-old already)

Simple health problems are magnified greatly when one is aged. Moreover, my grandmother passed on some three years ago and he really misses life without her.

The Beatles has this very old song called "we can work it out" in which John Lennon and Paul McCartney croon "Life is very short, and there's no time
For fussing and fighting, my friend".

Time is fleeting, life is transient and sometimes we never know when we'll next see someone.

Too often, i forget to resolve issues, simply because i assume i'll still see whoever anyway. (my brother will probably laugh if he sees this)

But no matter how many TOUCHWOODS are said, that doesn't change the fact that life is not really in our control.

Someone i know has just lost her 23-year-old friend to a sudden illness, which was realised way too late, and took everyone around her by shock.

At her funeral, her schoolmates were all saying how they wished they had the time to make up for certain things they should have done and said. And if only they had known, they would have done so. :(

A forgetful human being like me has to learn and relearn how to treasure others before it's too late. Let's begin with my grandfather.